On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 16:03:06 +0200
Michal Ludvig <michal@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Evgeniy Polyakov told me that:
> > On 29 Oct 2004 08:42:18 -0400
> > jamal <hadi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >>>I am very curious if you see perfomance improvements over old scheme
> >>in the case of a single crypto chip in a fast CPU.
> >>It has been shown in the past that with a xeon in the range of 2Ghz the
> >>context setup and the big lock (and lack of async) implied that
> >>performance enhancement using a crypto chip was negligible.
> >>IIRC, the only time it started showing anything useful was when a
> >>compute intensive alg like 3DES was chewing packets >= 1000 bytes.
> >>
> >>My suspicion is you will show it is better to use a crypto chip with
> >>async;-> In the minimal you should show some improvement.
> >
> >
> > If we have a hardware accelerator chip, than we _already_ have improvements
> > with even the worst async crypto layer, since software and hardware
> > will work in parrallel.
> > I agree that multigigahertz box will beat my HIFN card,
> > but I doubt it can beat 1gghz VIA.
>
> I have a very preliminary driver for FastCrypt PCI board for 3DES at
> http://www.logix.cz/michal/devel/fcrypt/
> For now it works with some very ugly hacks in the current cryptoapi, but
> I can give it a try with your acrypto and report the results.
It would be very appreciated>
> I admit I haven't read your sources too deeply yet so excuse me a dumb
> question - does acrypto replace or extend cryptoapi? Once I get it
> running will it take over e.g. encryption for IPsec?
They are both an addendum to each other,
any crypto layer can be "tunrned into compatibility mode" -
i.e. anyone can write bridges like attached sha1_provider.c (it is bridge
from async into sync mode). So I can not answer - but in _current_
implementation without any kind of bridges it is an extension.
If you compile this sources then you will still have old sync behaviour,
IPsec and any other old-style application should be rewritten(like
attached consumer.c) to use new asynchronous crypto layer features.
> Michal Ludvig
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